Slitherine

Alasdair is organising coffe and tea. There will be biscuits but you need to bring a pack lunch or pick something up at the local shops.

Bob

I'll be there from 7.45 but 8-8.15 will be fine if you are helping set up, there will be plenty of tea and coffeee, pack lunch is reccomended as though there are a couple of local shop (an M&S at local garage) they won't be cheap

Cheers

Alasdair

Thank you everyone and especially Bob for lending me the army and my opponents Alasdair, Andy and Don for the games and giving me help with the rules. Alasdair is my favourite opponent as I've had my career best result against him (bet there's not many people that can say that!)

Bevan

Thanks to Alasdair for running yesterday's first round, and to my 3 opponents for the games. A really fun day

Really liked the 3 games format - wondering if the 2 game rounds will be as good to be honest

I guess that depends on wether you like barren wastelands or not.

But seriously, it was a good day, I enjoyed my 3 games.

Thanks Alasdair and all involved in making it a hassle free enjoyable day.

cheers
Jim

nikgaukroger wrote:Thanks to Alasdair for running yesterday's first round, and to my 3 opponents for the games. A really fun day

Really liked the 3 games format - wondering if the 2 game rounds will be as good to be honest

Two of my 3 games were over in under 2 hours (one win, one loss), so I could probably have fitted a fourth game in if I'd tried hard enough...

Although it did encourage to make me take an all mounted army, so I can see the merits of having some rounds of 3 and some of 2 games

Hi everyone

Thanks for all your help

Oxford Competition

Joint 1st with 55 points Alasdair Harley with Hadhramaut
Joint 1st with 55 points Linda & Dave Fairhurst with Wallachian
3rd with 49 points Brian Holmes with Tuareg
4th with 48 points Andy Whitby with Hungarian
5th with 43 points Don Avis with Mamluks
6th with 41 points Nik Gaukroger with Hungarians
Joint 7th with 38 points Dave Allen with Early imperial Austrian
Joint 7th with 38 points Peter Dalby with Hungarian
Joint 7th with 38 points Don McHugh with Ottoman Turkish
10th with 33 points Lee Fisher with Safavid Persian
11th with 32 points Robert Medcraft with Tranyslvanian
12th with 30 points Tim Porter Central London with Hungarian
13th with 29 points Jim Gibson with Knights of St John
Joint 14th with 27 points Ray Boyle with Ottoman Turkish
Joint 14th with 27 points Steve Hacker with Knights of St John
Joint 14th with 27 points Andy Kitcher with Ottoman Turkish
17th with 21 points Paddy Bray with Early Imperial Austrian
18th with 19 points Andy Claxton with Mamluks
19th with 17 points Martin Naylor with Algerians Algerian
20th with 7 points Bevan Marchand with Ottoman Turkish


Thanks to everybody for an enjoyable day

Alasdair

All,

Attached are the Oxford results in a tabular form which hopefully is easier to read.



Congratulations to Alasdair, Lynda and Dave for their joint first place (Alasdair had obviously not read the rule about hosts not winning, especially as he spanked me in the last game!) and to Brian Holmes for grabbing 3rd with Tuareg. There was also a prize for Bevan for grabbing the wooden spoon, but it was his first competition with a borrowed army and in game 1 he drew Alasdair! Hope you enjoyed the day and we see you at more events in the future.

Now to roll on to the Clevedon round which will probably be on 24th March, hosted by Don McHugh and the Clevedon club. The theme will be "Eastern Takeaway" (!) featuring armies of India, China, Japan and Thailand - full details will be available later.

See you there!

Don

Can I just say a very big thank you to the Oxford club for a really good day yesterday. Was a long day but very very enjoyible.

I am just awaiting conformation from the scouts that we can have the hall on 24th which I should have by the end of the week, so hopefully I will post the full details and armies next week.

Thanks again

Don

Wow, submarined further up than I thought

You submarined Nik,Lynda has never played and I have had about 3 games,just goes to prove its a game of skill
I suspect we wouldn't do as well when all the advanced technology comes,I played it pretty much the same way I would have an ancient game
David

Thanks to Alasdair, the Oxford crew and my opponents for a great day out.

It was so good I'm going to enter the Clevedon round, despite the gruelling six hour car trip...

Dave Allen

Hi everyone

I'm told a score got given in the wrong way so a slight change in positions and I also misread a score so straight incompetance on my part

Oxford Competition

Joint 1st with 55 points Alasdair Harley with Hadhramaut
Joint 1st with 55 points Linda & Dave Fairhurst with Wallachian
3rd with 49 points Brian Holmes with Tuareg
4th with 48 points Andy Whitby with Hungarian
5th with 43 points Don Avis with Mamluks
6th with 41 points Nik Gaukroger with Hungarians
7th with 38 points Dave Allen with Early imperial Austrian
Joint 8th with 36 points Peter Dalby with Hungarian
Joint 8th with 36 points Don McHugh with Ottoman Turkish
10th with 33 points Lee Fisher with Safavid Persian
11th with 32 points Robert Medcraft with Tranyslvanian
12th with 30 points Tim Porter Central London with Hungarian
Joint 13th with 29 points Jim Gibson with Knights of St John
Joint 13th with 29 points Paddy Bray with Early Imperial Austrian
Joint 15th with 27 points Ray Boyle with Ottoman Turkish
Joint 15th with 27 points Steve Hacker with Knights of St John
Joint 17th with 19 points Andy Kitcher with Ottoman Turkish
Joint 17th with 19 points Andy Claxton with Mamluks
19th with 17 points Martin Naylor with Algerians Algerian
20th with 7 points Bevan Marchand with Ottoman Turkish

I think thats right

cheers

Alasdair
Thanks to everybody for an enjoyable day

Alasdair

Or not...

How did Pete with 36 and Don with 38 end up joint 8th when Dave managed 7th with 38 points?

So points awarded will be 20 to 1 for all competitions with your best three scores from the first 4 competitions taken in preperation for the finals day at Milton keynes, the exact format of which we are presently working out but we will hope to publish soon

Oxford Competition

20 points Alasdair Harley
20 points Linda Fairhurst
20 points Dave Fairhurst
18 points Brian Holmes
17 points Andy Whitby
16 points Don Avis
15 points Nik Gaukroger
14 points Dave Allen
13 points Peter Dalby
13 points Don McHugh
11 points Lee Fisher
10 points Robert Medcraft
9 points Tim Porter
8 points Jim Gibson
8 points Paddy Bray
6 points Ray Boyle
6 points Steve Hacker
4 points Andy Kitcher
4 points Andy Claxton
2 points Martin Naylor
1 point Bevan Marchand


cheers

Alasdair

timmy1 wrote:Or not...

How did Pete with 36 and Don with 38 end up joint 8th when Dave managed 7th with 38 points?

Typo

Alasdair

Any word on Clevedon yet?

Sorry guys, is a man not allowed to go to Rome for a few days

I can confirm the date for Clevedon as Sunday 24th March at the usual Scout hut.

It will be a three game competition.

I will post full details on Wednesday and I will have leaflets with me at Usk next weekend.

Don

Full details of the Clevedon round have now been posted seperately.

Thanking you in anticipation

Don

alasdair2204 wrote: Round 2 – Central London

• Date – Sunday in late May/early June
• Venue – The Escape Sports Bar, 2 Lidlington Place, Regents Park, London NW1 2JU (2 minutes walk from Mornington Crescent tube)
• Format – 2 x 3hr 15min games
• Period - Revolution & Turmoil in the UK 1639-1688 Early Caroline English, Scots Covenanter, Scots Royalist, Confederate Irish, Early ECW Royalist, ECW Parliamentarian, Later ECW Royalist, New Model Army, Restoration British, Covenanting Rebels, Monmouth Rebellion,

The pub is available on the 26th May, so unless any of the other bigger competitions announce dates for that weekend that's when we will be aiming for folks.

As far as I know, the cost will be "buy at least a couple of drinks during the day and order a curry for lunch".

We can definitely fit 10 tables in, and I think we can get up to 12.

Tim